[fetchmail-users] Re: blacklisting digest replies

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Rob MacGregor <rob...@gm...> writes:

> On 08/01/06, Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:
>> BTW, can the list filters please be adjusted so as to ban + reject
>> "fetchmail-users digest" in subjects?
>
> It doesn't look like mailman can handle this.  The closest it comes is
> allowing you to make a subject with that line a spam marker, which
> then requires an admin to review and act upon - a less than ideal
> approach.

OK, but Mailman can disable digest altogether.

>> I'm not looking at messages with these headers anyways, because they are
>> meaningless. People with incapable mailers deserve to suffer more than
>> those with capable mailers, and they can always switch to the plain
>> version, or split the digest up with maildrop or procmail helper
>> programs.
>
> Or simply copy-n-paste the correct subject when hitting reply :)

That won't do. People who reply to -digest posts 1. often hijack
threads, 2. break threading. Followups to my posts (as per In-Reply-To
or References) will appear in boldface and in the same thread. Just
pasting the right subject on the reply to the digest will break
threading and such followup hiliting.

Given that I'm one of the de-facto unpaid support guys, I decide what
hoops people can expect me to jump, and breaking threads, replying to
digest and other shipwrecks is expecting too much.

I expect proper mail formatting as "payment" for my spare time.

I've taken the liberty to change Subject, so it will pass my filter.

-- 
Matthias Andree